Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Saturday said that he received confirmation from representatives of five countries that suspended funding to UNRWA that they intend to resume their donations within several weeks, Al Jazeera reports.
The announcement comes after the prime minister received several Western ambassadors and consuls at his office on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports. Canada confirmed during the meeting it will resume funding. It was not immediately clear which other countries renewed their commitment to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh says he received confirmation from representatives of five countries that suspended funding to UNRWA that they intend to resume their donations within several weeks, Al Jazeera reports.
Deadly strikes were reported earlier Saturday in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah — dubbed a “pressure cooker of despair” by the UN — as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative truce deal between Israel and Hamas, AFP reports.
The ministry said more than 100 people in total were killed across the territory overnight. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled south to Rafah since the outbreak of the escalation, with the former city of 200,000 now housing more than half of Gaza’s two million-plus population, a WHO representative said Friday.—Agencies
